My Interview with Dr. Nagy was fantastic! Dr. Nagy is a professor in the Communications Major and is new to Bloomsburg this year. I was nervous about going into the interview but she was welcoming and extremely pleasant, she made me feel completely comfortable and relaxed which is exactly what I like in a teacher.
When I asked her about the kind of writing she did I wasn't really sure what to expect. I am not to familiar with the types of writing styles there are in English so I was eager to learn about the kind she does in her profession. She began to tell me that she does academic writing which is empirical research that follows APA 6 format sections that consists of an abstract, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references, and appendences. Academic writing is based on analysis which is the process of breaking down ideas to increase one's understanding.
On an average day the writing that Dr. Nagy typically focuses on are emails, which I guess in any professors case this would be the same. She said that between her 260 students this semester and faculty and department chairs its hard not to receive at least 100 emails a day. She also try's to do at least one academic writing a week along with her daily lectures that she prepares for her classes. I never really thought about composes emails as writing but when you're writing 100 a day that's like writing almost a 5 page paper, so hearing this definitely made me look at emails in a different way.
The purpose she usually writes is to present at conferences or for publications. She said, "Conferences are hard because I will normally write a 25 page paper over the span of 3 months." Both conferences and publications are very competitive so you have to make sure what your presenting is top of line. This made me realize how much work professors put into their job, they not only have to prepare lectures and things for class but they have to write papers outside of the classroom for their job just like we do.
Dr. Nagy writes for people in communications she said, "sometimes this can be scary because the people I am presenting to are developed and know almost all there is about communications." So, her work has to be proficient at all times. I can see how intimidating that must be, and it really made me see her as a real person not just my professor. As students we don't get to talk to our teachers outside of class much, so to see she gets nervous and scared at times too helped me to relate to her better.
The research article she told me she admired most is actually one that she had written herself with her advisor at the time, Jennifer A. Theiss. The title of the article is called Actor-partner effects in the associations between relationship characteristics and reactions to marital sexual intimacy. The article is a study that "uses the relational turbulence model and dyadic data analysis to examine how marital relationship characteristics affect emotional and cognitive reactions to sex. She said the reason she admires this piece of work she did so significantly is because it was presented to the NCA (National Communications Association) and the ICA (International Communications Association) and it won the Top Paper Award, which is a really big deal. The article reflects the academic writing that she does most of which I think is what relates it so much to her and her style. She said, "It was such a great feeling to accomplish something that is so big and not easy to achieve." this shows that hard work really does pay off.
When I asked her about what she gets out of the writing she does her answer surprised me she said, "I wouldn't say writing's fun, but it is very rewarding." I can see how it can be rewarding I guess I'm naïve, but I just assumed all teachers loved to write. "When I have to write a 25 page paper over a 3 month span of course that's not fun, it's stressful and time consuming, but when its all said and done you get a feeling of accomplishment and that out weighs everything else you had to go through to get there.
What I learned from this interview was that teachers aren't so different from us as we expect. They write papers, get nervous to do presentations, and do not enjoy writing all the time. It makes me put into perspective the amount of time they put in to their lesson plans and lectures and how much they really do love their job and everything they do.
When I asked her about the kind of writing she did I wasn't really sure what to expect. I am not to familiar with the types of writing styles there are in English so I was eager to learn about the kind she does in her profession. She began to tell me that she does academic writing which is empirical research that follows APA 6 format sections that consists of an abstract, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references, and appendences. Academic writing is based on analysis which is the process of breaking down ideas to increase one's understanding.
On an average day the writing that Dr. Nagy typically focuses on are emails, which I guess in any professors case this would be the same. She said that between her 260 students this semester and faculty and department chairs its hard not to receive at least 100 emails a day. She also try's to do at least one academic writing a week along with her daily lectures that she prepares for her classes. I never really thought about composes emails as writing but when you're writing 100 a day that's like writing almost a 5 page paper, so hearing this definitely made me look at emails in a different way.
The purpose she usually writes is to present at conferences or for publications. She said, "Conferences are hard because I will normally write a 25 page paper over the span of 3 months." Both conferences and publications are very competitive so you have to make sure what your presenting is top of line. This made me realize how much work professors put into their job, they not only have to prepare lectures and things for class but they have to write papers outside of the classroom for their job just like we do.
Dr. Nagy writes for people in communications she said, "sometimes this can be scary because the people I am presenting to are developed and know almost all there is about communications." So, her work has to be proficient at all times. I can see how intimidating that must be, and it really made me see her as a real person not just my professor. As students we don't get to talk to our teachers outside of class much, so to see she gets nervous and scared at times too helped me to relate to her better.
The research article she told me she admired most is actually one that she had written herself with her advisor at the time, Jennifer A. Theiss. The title of the article is called Actor-partner effects in the associations between relationship characteristics and reactions to marital sexual intimacy. The article is a study that "uses the relational turbulence model and dyadic data analysis to examine how marital relationship characteristics affect emotional and cognitive reactions to sex. She said the reason she admires this piece of work she did so significantly is because it was presented to the NCA (National Communications Association) and the ICA (International Communications Association) and it won the Top Paper Award, which is a really big deal. The article reflects the academic writing that she does most of which I think is what relates it so much to her and her style. She said, "It was such a great feeling to accomplish something that is so big and not easy to achieve." this shows that hard work really does pay off.
When I asked her about what she gets out of the writing she does her answer surprised me she said, "I wouldn't say writing's fun, but it is very rewarding." I can see how it can be rewarding I guess I'm naïve, but I just assumed all teachers loved to write. "When I have to write a 25 page paper over a 3 month span of course that's not fun, it's stressful and time consuming, but when its all said and done you get a feeling of accomplishment and that out weighs everything else you had to go through to get there.
What I learned from this interview was that teachers aren't so different from us as we expect. They write papers, get nervous to do presentations, and do not enjoy writing all the time. It makes me put into perspective the amount of time they put in to their lesson plans and lectures and how much they really do love their job and everything they do.
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